I still need to see where this is anything more than a focus on what glorified Christians will experience, along with a taming of the world's hostility towards Christianity? I remain open on this, but have not seen anything that cannot be applied as our current hope for a glorified experience, which even for Premils begins at the 2nd Coming or the beginning of the Millennium.
There was one quote you provided, however, that seems to infer belief in a completely glorified existence in the Millennium. But this seems inconsistent for a Chiliast, and wonder if this belief, if true, is an "outlier?"
That is simply not true, and you know it. The early Chiliasts like Amils past and present saw Christ ushering a new perfect glorified state devoid of all corruption. That is what these patristic testimonies described. No where did they describe sin and sinners, deceit and deception, dying in crying, disease and decay, Satan and his minions, war and terror in the age to come. Only the glorified saints were qualified to inherit the new earth. This is all classic Amillennialism, and anti-Premil. I have showed you multiple quotes to support this.
The burden of proof is with you to show all the classic ingredients that mark the Premil age to come like the continuation of sin, sinners, mortals, sexual intercourse, procreation, marriage, decay, the curse, corruption, the elevation of natural Israel above all other ethnic groups a renewal of the Jewish sacrifice system, carnal pleasure like procreating in the age to come, the binding of Satan for 1,000 years+ after the second coming, Christ reigning in Jerusalem over His enemies for 1,000 years upon David’s throne, the release of Satan 1,000 years+ after the second coming, the revival of Satanism 1,000 years+ after the second coming as the wicked in their billions overrun the Premil millennium, being advocated by the early Chiliasts. It is simply not there! If I am wrong, bring your evidence to the table. So far, you have brought nothing.
The primitive Chiliasts believed that the millennial earth ushered in at the appearing of Christ would be fully regenerated and therefore be perfect and pristine. Irenaeus is crystal clear in his idea of the age to come. To him it is totally purged of all the ugliness of the bondage of corruption. There would therefore be no more death or decay. The wicked and all wickedness were expected to be excluded from it. He testified:
Inasmuch, therefore, as the opinions of certain [orthodox persons] are derived from heretical discourses, they are both ignorant of God’s dispensations, and of the mystery of the resurrection of the just, and of the [earthly] kingdom which is the commencement of incorruption, by means of which kingdom those who shall be worthy are accustomed gradually to partake of the divine nature (capere Deum) (Against Heresies Book V, Chapter 32)
Irenaeus saw “the resurrection of the just” ushering in “the [earthly] kingdom which is the commencement of incorruption.” Irenaeus anticipates the curse being completely lifted in a future millennium. The earth, in his opinion, will be returned to its pre-fall state. This coincides with the glorification of the just. He explains:
John, therefore, did distinctly foresee the first “resurrection of the just,” and the inheritance in the kingdom of the earth; and what the prophets have prophesied concerning it harmonize [with his vision]. For the Lord also taught these things, when He promised that He would have the mixed cup new with His disciples in the kingdom. The apostle, too, has confessed that the creation shall be free from the bondage of corruption, [so as to pass] into the liberty of the sons of God. And in all these things, and by them all, the same God the Father is manifested, who fashioned man, and gave promise of the inheritance of the earth to the fathers, who brought it (the creature) forth [from bondage] at the resurrection of the just, and fulfils the promises for the kingdom of His Son (Against Heresies Book V, Chapter 36:3).
According to this into a writer, creation is going to be delivered from the bondage of corruption. This of course is a classic and fundamental Amil doctrine. The millennial earth is depicted here by this ancient Chiliast to be heaven on earth. It is devoid of any form of corruption or rebellion. The wicked are prohibited from it. It is the abode of the righteous alone who are depicted as enjoying the same bliss and rest of paradise as before the Fall. Irenaeus enlarges:
The predicted blessing, therefore, belongs unquestionably to the times of the kingdom, when the righteous shall bear rule upon their rising from the dead; when also the creation, having been renovated and set free, shall fructify with an abundance of all kinds of food, from the dew of heaven, and from the fertility of the earth: as the elders who saw John, the disciple of the Lord, related that they had heard from him how the Lord used to teach in regard to these times, and say: “The days will come, in which vines shall grow, each having ten thousand branches, and in each branch ten thousand twigs, and in each true twig ten thousand shoots, and in each one of the shoots ten thousand dusters, and on every one of the clusters ten thousand grapes, and every grape when pressed will give five and twenty metretes of wine. And when any one of the saints shall lay hold of a cluster, another shall cry out, I am a better cluster, take me; bless the Lord through me. In like manner [the Lord declared] that ... all animals feeding [only] on the productions of the earth, should [in those days] become peaceful and harmonious among each other, and be in perfect subjection to man (Against Heresies Book V, Chapter 33:3).
Here, Irenaeus quotes Papias. But we can see that this earth imagined wasn’t one that contained wickedness and the wicked, but perfection and fruitfulness. Irenaeus believes “creation” will be “renovated and set free” at the resurrection of the just, whereupon the glorified righteous will then reign over the perfected earth that “shall fructify with an abundance of all kinds of food, from the dew of heaven, and from the fertility of the earth.” He backs his belief up with a quote from Papias. Elsewhere he states:
For then there shall in truth be a common joy consummated to all those who believe unto life, and in each individual shall be confirmed the mystery of the Resurrection, and the hope of incorruption, and the commencement of the eternal kingdom, when God shall have destroyed death and the devil. For that human nature and flesh which has risen again from the dead shall die no more; but after it had been changed to incorruption, and made like to spirit, when the heaven was opened, [our Lord] full of glory offered it (the flesh) to the Father (Fragment L).
Irenaeus saw the removal of corruption and the introduction of incorruption as occurring at the coming of Christ. He views a future millennial kingdom as the start of incorruption. He backs this up by demonstrating that death and the devil are destroyed at this climactic event. This cuts across modern-day Premillennialism.
Chapter 34:2 also describes the lifting of the curse in a future millennium (including death):
That the whole creation shall, according to God’s will, obtain a vast increase, that it may bring forth and sustain fruits such [as we have mentioned], Isaiah declares: “And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every prominent hill, water running everywhere in that day, when many shall perish, when walls shall fall. And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, seven times that of the day, when He shall heal the anguish of His people, and do away with the pain of His stroke.” Now “the pain of the stroke” means that inflicted at the beginning upon disobedient man in Adam, that is, death; which [stroke] the Lord will heal when He raises us from the dead, and restores the inheritance of the fathers, as Isaiah again says: “And thou shall be confident in the Lord, and He will cause thee to pass over the whole earth, and feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father.” This is what the Lord declared: “Happy are those servants whom the Lord when He cometh shall find watching. Verily I say unto you, that He shall gird Himself, and make them to sit down [to meat], and will come forth and serve them. And if He shall come in the evening watch, and find them so, blessed are they, because He shall make them sit down, and minister to them; or if this be in the second, or it be in the third, blessed are they.” Again John also says the very same in the Apocalypse: “Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection.”
Irenaeus definitely anticipates the arrival of a perfect new earth after Jesus returns. The curse is gone. The reference to “the pain of the stroke” or “the stroke of their wound” in Isaiah 30:26 relates to the awful fruit of the Fall – depravity, decay, disease, deception and death. According to Irenaeus, death is terminated at the second coming. He shows this to be the time of when the righteous are resurrected. Irenaeus contends, speaking of the curse: “which [stroke] the Lord will heal when He raises us from the dead, and restores the inheritance of the fathers.” This shows how different ancient Chiliasm and modern Premillennialism is.